How do context variables affect food insecurity in Mexico? Implications for policy and governance.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess, from a systems perspective, how climate vulnerability and socio-economic and political differences at the municipal and state levels explain food insecurity in Mexico.

Design

Using a cross-sectional design with official secondary data, we estimated three-level multinomial hierarchical linear models.

Setting

The study setting is Mexico's states and municipalities in 2014.

Participants

Heads of households in a representative sample of the general population.

Results

At the municipal level, vulnerability to climate disasters and a poverty index were significant predictors of food insecurity after adjusting for household-level variables. At the state level, gross domestic product and the number of nutrition programmes helped explain diff

SUBMITTER: Vilar-Compte M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11362625 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature